Tuesday, April 4, 2017

killer addition to my collection

Do you ever win an eBay listing and are so happy about it that you go to your "My eBay" page several times in the ensuing days just to see the card listed under your "Orders" and smile thinking about its impending arrival? This was one of those for me.

Landed my first Harmon Killebrew auto! I love Topps Retired Signature Edition, the short-lived auto-per-pack high-end product from 2003-2005. I keep an eye on eBay for Retired cards I need popping up at a good price. This one showed up at a very reasonable buy-it-now and I jumped at it. The seller misspelled it "Kellebrew," so that might have been a factor in nobody snatching it up sooner.

Lots of red stats on the back, making it easy to see how Killer was a no-doubt HOFer. These cards aren't serial numbered (only the refractor parallels are numbered), but according to Beckett, only 76 were produced of this base auto Killebrew.

So yeah, nice pickup. Great player and a class act. Very happy to add his autograph in my collection.

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